Motivation Quotes

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

Sometimes, beyond all else, should be a true passion and investment in driving the result and a lack of fear associated with making it happen.

~ Colleen Bader

If you can’t trust yourself, love yourself and believe in your dreams, it makes it hard for anyone else to trust, love or believe in you.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

Filling up your soul with the depths of your own thoughts, that's just extraordinarily progressive.

~ Devil Dash

They say the mind can move mountains, I think it can move the whole god damn universe. Or else how have we travelled to other planets?

~ Nikhil Shrivastava

Don't think for second you are not a badass warrior. That's precisely your problem, you don't realize how amazingly brilliant and super kickass you are. Your potential is only limited by your mind.

~ Melody Lee

No one ever changed the world waking up at noon.

~ Connor Chalfant

You know how powerful it can be when you discover that you can do something you never thought you could? It changes everything… and gets you thinking about what else you can do that you weren’t aware of.

~ Ashley Graham

The Internet is a funny place, because it’s a forum for so many awful ideas, body shaming, bullying, and the like. The negative side of social media is that everybody thinks they’re experts with the right to weigh in on.Yet, at the same time, the Internet is a place where women can find solidarity, no matter who or where they are.

~ Ashley Graham

Branding is fascinating. Creating a brand that is authentic and timeless is what entrepreneurs dream of. Dare to be different, dare to dream.

~ Independent Zen

Only the truth shall free us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The day you start trusting the people who think you are right, more than the people who are actually right, you are on your way down.

~ Everskeptic

Unleash you masterpiece genius and let your authentic self be free.

~ Virginia Phillips

Think of what you desire out of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every good deed is a glory to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.

~ Mark Denman

The only shame is the sin.

~ Aphra Behn

Being a good parent requires being an outstanding sales person. Direct communication and motivating our children, or young adults with our ideals isn't easy. It's a lifetime job and job of a lifetime.

~ Ron Baratono

In suffering a man must search for his Maker.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you get stuck, get up, and go ahead.

~ Jervin Balmediano

Don't spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but be anxious to do the will of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no i in team. But there are two in motivation. 

~ T. Jay Taylor

Instantly, I was overwhelmed with gratitude. I didn't know exactly what I was feeling, but my buddy JD - my best man, whom I had met at Northwestern - has seen his dad go through (and beat) esophageal cancer and explained it to me thusly: When you have cancer, it's like you're at the bottom of a hole, and you just want to get out. Only it's too big for you to just climb out easily. But every good thing that happens - no matter how small - is like a rock in the side of the hole. You climb up, grabbing one little rock at a time. Had a good doctor's appointment? That's a rock. Feeling a little better today? That's a rock, too. Before you know it, you've climbed out of that hole, one little rock at a time. You just need to find the rocks.

~ Bryan Bishop

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it? He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act? Where would he not?

~ Arthur Koestler

Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay motivated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not believe in yourself, Ewan, then you will surely not succeed. Pity in ones own downfalls without the sight to rejoice in your strengths is truly the road to ruin. But if you do decide to pat your own back a little more often, then you will find that you are not the only one who believes it a worthwhile exercise. And there will always be those there to do it for you in times when you may not quite be able to reach.

~ Shaun Hume

Motivation is like quicksand. if you stand still for too long you will sink. When you start working towards your goal the start always hard until you aren't sinking anymore.

~ Random Reddit User

To all my enemies, I will destroy it.

~ Frankie Boyle

Every war is not worth fighting and every victory is not worth celebratingbecause not ever disagrement should creat an enemy.

~ Tonny K. Brown

No effort is every wasted.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work.

~ Scott Stabile

It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right to leave your lane, and to do things in the same way that other people do.

~ Allan Hennessy

Rather than reacting to every obstacle or dashed expectation, incorporate the event into your overall plan. Real life setbacks like rejections, broken promises, and unfair disadvantages will happen. Rethink the meaning behind the emotional triggers and how your reaction will further your purpose. Manage emotions by recognizing their place, but do not allow them to control your moves.

~ Alisa Melekhina

Nothing makes a man better than to forgive his faults.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline in order to achieve a specific objective.

~ Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.

~ Allan Hennessy

It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying Him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending Him.

~ John Calvin